Les Bad Guys 2, substitution- Bring Her Back, Touch- Our Broken Embrages: New in the cinema this week
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Bad Guys 2 ★★★★ ☆
Perifel
Essential
Pierre Perifel delivers a sequel that surpasses the previous episode on all levels, proving that one can make intelligent family entertainment without sacrificing either action or visual inventiveness. One of the summits in DreamWorks history
Three years after their redemption, our favorite criminal animals are struggling to find their place in society. Difficult to win a job when you scored “notorious robber” on your CV! But when a mysterious female team – the bad girls – sows chaos, Mr. Loup and his gang are forced to get out of their retirement for “a last blow”. The perfect opportunity to prove that they have definitely turned the page. Pierre Perifel delivers a suite that surpasses the previous episode on all fronts, multiplying tasty winks at Mission: Impossibleto the James Bond or at the Hitchcockian thrillers. Visually, it’s a festival. Perifel and his team explore all the registers with a crazy audacity: Miyazaki plans for breakage scenes, comics aesthetics for certain proceedings, sophisticated 3D for action … This constant hybridization is not free, since it serves the hybrid DNA of a film that is constantly advancing between family animation and pure gender film. With Bad Guys 2DreamWorks signs one of his best suites (even one of his best long animated lifes), proving that one can make intelligent family entertainment without sacrificing either action or visual inventiveness.
Gaël Golhen
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Substitution- Bring Her Back ★★★★ ☆
By Danny and Michael Philippou
After the box- surprise of The hand In 2022, the Philippou brothers (twins), born in 92, could have chosen ease by chaining with a direct suite. But they had the rich idea of preferring to embark on a horrific whispered story which quotes both Jack Clayton and Shyamalan or Simeterre. We follow a post-ado and her little (beautiful) sister placed in a foster home after the sudden death of the dad. The place is administered by an old shrink, who lost his daughter a few years earlier and began to collect kids like Noah stocked animals in her arch. It is interpreted by the always amazing Sally Hawkins, here while in bipolar majesty, both twig under Xanax and hyperactive colossus. For an hour, and before the mechanics of the thriller resume his rights, the Philippou will be content to observe their actress hold the reins of this rainy melodrama which is like nothing known in the landscape of contemporary horror.
Romain Thoral
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Touch- Our Break Bikes ★★★ ☆☆
From Baltasar Kormakur
Kristófer, Icelandic widower, learns that he is developing Alzheimer’s. Now, only one obsession: find Miko, his first love disappeared fifty years earlier. In March 2020, despite the pandemic, the old man (Egill ólafsson, overwhelming) flies away for Tokyo. In flashbacks, the young Kristófer (Pálmi Kormákur) abandons his London studies to become a diver in a Japanese restaurant. He falls in love with Miko (Kōki), the boss’s daughter, before the family disappears suddenly. Accustomed to the action register, Kormákur masters here the art of the assumed melo. Its evanescent staging plays contrasts and composes paintings where the sensuality of food becomes a romantic metaphor. If the rhythm gets carried away during the final revelations, Touch There remains a moving journey on the acceptance of the passing time. More than a history of reunion, a film on the grace of memory and the immarian beauty of simple gestures.
Pierre Lunn
Transamazonia ★★★ ☆☆
Marais
From the South African filmmaker Pio Marais we had seen At the age of Ellen In 2012, a drama that saw a young woman out of rupture leaving the banks of her condition to engage in a quest supposedly redemptive. Transamazonia Auscults with force the same path adding a fascinating magic dimension. The young Rebecca, the only survivor of a plane crash in the middle of the Amazon forest, became a healer in the region. The father, head of a proselyte ultra-Christian mission, features his miracles with a local population dependent on his property. Soon the arrival of aggressive loggers will force Rebecca to put his donations at the service of a cause which could exceed it. The beauty of the film lies in this way in which the filmmaker makes the face of her heroine, some stigmata of which reveal a strangeness (monstrosity?), The sensitive territory of this drama that evokes distantly The appearance by Xavier Giannoli (2018). Strong.
Thomas Baurez
Ryuchi Sakamoto, opus ★★★ ☆☆
Of Neo Sora
Like two old friends, Ryuichi Sakamoto and his piano stand in the center of the legendary Studio 509, a dark room with some jets of light. Quickly, the touches of the instrument get carried away, releasing the music notes that make us travel. The destination? A retrospective of the varied work of the famous Japanese composer, disappeared in 2023 at 71 years old, which contributed to several great cinema classics as Furyo And The last emperor. In this posthumous documentary filmed in black and white, this genius of the Japanese music scene is told with sincerity by interpreting twenty pieces of his repertoire, alone on the piano. At the camera and in front of the camera of his son, he delivers his final performance, sweating honesty and revealing without moods his least weaknesses, a few months before his disappearance. This poetic account – of infinite delicacy – manages to restore with simplicity and emotion, the artist’s grand finale, with only a few piano notes in a crucial moment where words no longer have their place.
Marie Janeyriat
Perla ★★★ ☆☆
By Alexandra Makarova
In the early 1980s, Perla who fled Czechoslovakia illegally, managed to rebuild his life in Vienna. Until this past reappears when her husband whom she had claimed dead, contacted her and lies on her health to turn the iron curtain and come to see him one last time. Inspired by the story of her family, Alexandra Marakova tells this trip that Perla begins with her daughter and her new companion with a sense of twists and turns and a excavated writing of each character who gives birth to a suspense breath from start to finish.
Thierry Cheze
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Gangs of Taiwan ★★ ☆ From
From Liu Wei Chen
Discovered during the 2024 edition of the week of Cannes criticism, this first feature featured the itinerary of a young Taiwanese, employed in a restaurant during the day and racketeer in the night band, whose acquisition of the establishment where he works by a crooked businessman will force him to leave the shadows and face his own gang. Behind the camera, Keff seduced by the beauty of the images of this black thriller which tells hollow the explosive political situation between Taiwan and China. But he convinces less in the conduct of his scenario, often unnecessarily confused before becoming too predictable and pulling the line to hold 2:15 very long. Still, we want to follow his career in the years to come.
Thierry Cheze
Eternal ★★ ☆ From
From Ulaa Salim
Love to the test of time and why not that of climate change. Where how a young scientist embarked in an underwater mission is faced with an earthly flaw and sees his conscience redo the path of a sentimental life left on the surface. The story with the claimed complexity strives to get lost to better question the value of feelings (and yes here too!) A charming film between a sensitive and fantastic sweet, with inspired staging.
Thomas Baurez
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Sam makes you laugh ★ ☆☆☆
From Ally Pankiw
Too little known in France (none of the films that revealed it, Shivababy,, Bodies Bodies Bodies And Bottoms has come out in theaters), the irresistible Rachel Sennott is the major reason to discover this Sam makes you laugh. And even … the only one! She plays the role-title there, a peer girl, a humorist of stand up suffering from post-traumatic stress preventing her from going back on stage that the disappearance of the teenager from which she was dealing with that she seeks to hunt from her memory. Confused in its management of flashbacks and flashforwards, maintaining a more than clumsy suspense on what Sam experienced, this film misses everything that succeeds Sorry, baby (see page 88) on the same subject. Ally Pankiw spends too much time turning around the pot and looking for a balance between Sam’s caustic humor and the traums linked to the sexual assault which she was the victim to take what constitutes the heart of her story with her body. Frustrating.
Thierry Cheze
And also
Dracula, by Luc Besson
The covers
The African Queen, by John Huston
Moulin Rouge, by John Huston
Stronger than the devil, by John Huston
